The writer is the Pakistani Executive Director of the Center forResearch and Security Studies, a think tank established in 2007, andan Islamabad-based freelance columnist.

Why are Jews so powerful?

There are only 14 million Jews in the world; seven million in theAmericas, five million in Asia, two million inEuropeand 100,000 inAfrica . For every single Jew in the world there are100 Muslims.

Yet, Jews are more than a hundred times more powerfulthan all the Muslims put together.Ever wondered why?

Jesus of Nazareth was Jewish.Albert Einstein, the most influential scientist of all time andTIME magazine's 'Person of the Century', was a Jew.

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis was a Jew.So were Karl Marx, Paul Samuelson and Milton Friedman.

Here are a few other Jews whose intellectual outputhas enriched the whole humanity:

Benjamin Rubin gave humanity the vaccinating needle.Jonas Salk developed the first polio vaccine.Albert Sabin developed the improved live polio vaccine.Gertrude Elion gave us a leukemia fighting drug.Baruch Blumberg developed the vaccination for Hepatitis B.

Paul Ehrlich discovered a treatment for syphilis.Elie Metchnikoff won a Nobel Prize in infectious diseases.Bernard Katz won a Nobel Prize in neuromuscular transmission.Andrew Schally won a Nobel in endocrinology.Aaron Beck founded Cognitive Therapy.

Gregory Pincus developed the first oral contraceptive pill.George Wald won a Nobel for our understanding of the human eye.Stanley Cohen won a Nobel in embryology.Willem Kolff came up with the kidney dialysis machine.

Over the past 105 years, 14 million Jews have won 15-dozen NobelPrizes while only three Nobel Prizes have been won by 1.4 billionMuslims (other than Peace Prizes).Why are Jews so powerful?Stanley Mezor invented the first micro-processing chip.Leo Szilard developed the first nuclear chain reactor;Peter Schultz, optical fibre cable;Charles Adler, traffic lights;Benno Strauss, Stainless steel;Isador Kisee, sound movies;Emile Berliner, telephone microphone;Charles Ginsburg, videotape recorder.

Famous financiers in the business world who belong to Jewish faith include

The most beneficent philanthropist in the history of the world isGeorge Soros, a Jew, who has so far donated a colossal $4 billion mostof which has gone as aid to scientists and universities around theworld.

Second to George Soros is Walter Annenberg, another Jew, who has builta hundred libraries by donating an estimated $2 billion.

At the Olympics, Mark Spitz set a record of sorts by winning sevengold medals; Lenny Krayzelburg is a three-time Olympic gold medalist.Spitz, Krayzelburg and Boris Becker (Tennis) are all Jewish.

So, why are Jews so powerful?Answer : EDUCATIONWhy are Muslims so powerless?

There are an estimated 1,476,233,470 Muslims on the face of theplanet: one billion in Asia, 400 million in Africa, 44 million inEurope and six million in the Americas . Every fifth human being is aMuslim; for every single Hindu there are two Muslims, for everyBuddhist there are two Muslims and for every Jew there are one hundredMuslims.

Ever wondered why Muslims are so powerless?Here is why: There are 57 member-countries of the Organisation ofIslamic Conference (OIC), and all of them put together have around500 universities; one university for every three million Muslims. TheUnited States has 5,758 universities and India has 8,407.

In 2004, Shanghai Jiao Tong University compiled an 'Academic Rankingof World Universities' , and intriguingly, not one universityfrom Muslim-majority states was in the top-500.

As per data collected by the UNDP, literacy in the Christian worldstands at nearly 90 per cent and 15 Christian-majority states have aliteracy rate of 100 per cent.

A Muslim-majority state, as a sharp contrast, has an average literacyrate of around 40 per cent and there is no Muslim-majority state witha literacy rate of 100 per cent.

Some 98 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world hadcompleted primary school, while less than 50 per cent of the'literates' in the Muslim world did the same.

Around 40 per cent of the 'literates' in the Christian world attendeduniversity while no more than two per cent of the 'literates' in theMuslim world did the same.

Muslim-majority countries have 230 scientists per one million Muslims.The US has 4,000 scientists per million and Japan has 5,000 permillion.In the entire Arab world, the total number of full-time researchers is35,000 and there are only 50 technicians per one million Arabs. (inthe Christian world there are up to 1,000 technicians per onemillion).

Furthermore, the Muslim world spends 0.2 per cent of its GDP onresearch and development, while the Christian world spends around fiveper cent of its GDP.

Conclusion: The Muslim world lacks the capacity to produce knowledge!

Daily newspapers per 1,000 people and number of book titles permillion are two indicators of whether knowledge is being diffused in asociety.

In Pakistan , there are 23 daily newspapers per 1,000 Pakistanis whilethe same ratio in Singapore is 360. In the UK , the number of booktitles per million stands at 2,000 while the same in Egypt is 20.

Conclusion: The Muslim world is failing to diffuse knowledge.

Exports of high technology products as a percentage of total exportsare an important indicator of knowledge application. Pakistan 'sexport of high technology products as a percentage of total exportsstands at one per cent. The same for Saudi Arabia is 0.3 per cent;Kuwait , Morocco , and Algeria are all at 0.3 per cent, whileSingapore is at 58 per cent.

...... (Muslim GDP as a percentage of world GDP is fast declining).So, why are Muslims so powerless?Answer: Lack of education.

All we do is shout to Allah the whole day !!! and blame everyone elsefor our multiple failures!!!!! ============================== = Muslims are not happy They're not happy in Gaza They're not happy in Egypt They're not happy in Libya They're not happy in Morocco They're not happy in Iran They're not happy in Iraq They're not happy in Yemen They're not happy in Afghanistan They're not happy in Pakistan They're not happy in Syria They're not happy in Lebanon So, where are they happy? They're happy in Australia They're happy in England They're happy in France They're happy in Italy They're happy in Germany They're happy in Sweden They're happy in the USA & Canada They're happy in Norway They're happy in almost every country that is not Islamic! And who do they blame?

Not Islam... Not their leadership... Not themselves... THEY BLAME THE COUNTRIES THEY ARE HAPPY IN And they want to change the countries they're happy in, to be like the countries they came from, where they were unhappy. Try to find logic in that !

Jeff Foxworthy on Muslims:

1. If You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moralobjection to liquor,

You are a Muslim

2. If You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher,but you can'tafford shoes. You are a Muslim

3. If You have more wives than teeth. You are a Muslim

4. If You wipe your butt with your bare hand, but consider bacon unclean. You are a Muslim

5. If You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide. You are a Muslim

6. If You can't think of anyone you haven't declared Jihad against. You are a Muslim

7. If You consider television dangerous, but routinely carryexplosives in your clothing. You are a Muslim

8. If You were amazed to discover that cell phones have usesother than setting off roadside bombs, You are a Muslim

9. If You have nothing against women and think every man shouldown at least four, You are a Muslim

10. If You find this offensive or racist and don't forward it, You are a Muslim

Replies to This Discussion

Interesting that he spent SO much time talking about Jews, but omitted Israel as a place where Muslims are happy. Muslim Israeli citizens have all the rights that Jews do, including the right to form political parties and elect Members of the Knesset (parliament), but they don't have to serve in the military. Young women from the West Bank are eager to marry Israeli Arabs so they can come to Israel and enjoy the much better standard of living there.

But anyway, this is an interesting article simply because it's true. Arabs ruling oil-rich countries spend their money on imported luxuries for themselves, not on building up their middle class and economies (which is what education would do). If non-rich Arab children are literate at all, it's ONLY for the purpose of reading the Quran, not for learning about modern science and math. And in non-Arab countries, it's worse. They DON'T have resources, and they are desperately poor, and don't have the means to educate their children in anything but the Quran. They are equivalent to Europeans in the Dark Ages -- where religion is everything, and the rest is just labor to survive. And it's ironic that the Muslim world at the time was the center of learning and science and technology. Where did they go wrong? Or was it the Christian conquests during the Crusades that destroyed their technology and culture so utterly? I'm sure this will make for a good debate!

I saw a program that attributed the drop in Muslim scholarship, in part, to a religious-based refusal to accept the printing press for a very long time. By insisting on hand copied books in their own language they cut themselves off from the explosion of knowledge in Europe and elsewhere. This goes back to diffusion of knowledge.

The first entry is amazing for a Muslim scholar! A lot of these facts I didn't know.

I attribute the superior achievements of the Jewish people in part to selecting for the best scholars for more than three thousand years.

Jeff Foxworthy is too hostile. While it has some humor, overall it makes me sick. Oh wait, according to Jeff I'm a Muslim because I find that offensive. Therefore I must have more wives than teeth, routinely carry explosives in my clothing, and I must not use toilet paper, etc.

He could have taken his statement one step further. Muslims are not only not producing or diffusing knowledge; They Are Actively REPRESSING KNOWLEDGE! How often have we heard: "All we want is the quran!" Their madrassas teach very little other than the quran and at that, only the men are welcome in their schools. The Taliban actively dismiss western thought and education and fight against the introduction of both in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Whether they see education as synonymous with empowerment or not, it's clear they don't want either, because it threatens their patriarchy.